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+# DEPRECATION NOTICE
+This project is no longer maintained and not recommended for any sort of use case. Please see https://github.com/divnix/digga/issues/503 for better alternatives and the reasons behind this decision.
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 Digga — slangy German for "good friend" — is a flake utility library
 that helps you declaratively craft and manage all three layers of your system
 environment within a single [nix flakes][flakes] repository: